General information
Company general information
TOYOTA is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 300.000 people. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing and engineering operations.
Team/division description:
Vehicle Performance Engineering – Model Based Development
The VPE-MBD team within R&D has the role of providing simulation models and virtual evaluation tools to the specific vehicle dynamics performance teams (handling, ride comfort, drivability, brake control), as well as defining more advanced performance indicators to support vehicle project development target setting.
Your project:
Develop an efficient process for design space exploration
Your mission will be to balance the use of vehicle performance simulation models with state of the art techniques for surrogate modelling and adaptive sampling to identify feasible design regions. Given the complexity of practical application cases, you will need to define a step by step approach to optimal design, considering performance dependencies and parameter sensitivities.
Your profile:
- Student in final year study of Master degree of engineering, with focus on simulation and optimisation methodologies.
- Proficient in Matlab scripting.
- Knowledge of advanced numerical methods for design space exploration (surrogate modeling, adaptive sampling, etc.) will be considered as a strong asset.
- Knowledge of vehicle and system dynamics simulation packages (Carmaker/Amesim/Simpack) and Python will be considered as assets.
- Fluent in English.
You have a Toyota DNA, this means you:
• Wish to develop and are ready to persevere in order to reach challenging targets
• Seek facts before making recommendations or decisions
• Have strong planning and organizing skills
• Enjoy working in a team, respecting others
• Have excellent communication skills
• Customer mindset
Additional information:
Place of employment: Toyota Motor Europe Technical Center, Brussels, Belgium
Starting date: As soon as possible
Duration: max 9 months
Confidentiality: Due to business requirement, not all performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance.
